The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-18 00:00:00

MAILS. so—: ; Waterford. z Waterford. Consols Duz.•—z Gottenburgh, PRICE OF . StOCKS THIS DAY AT TWLLVZ &CLOCK. 7J E S UN• 4')LEIS c• UIS DIC4RE VALSUA AULEA.T L 0 N D 0 4V, SATURDAY, 11091432 R 18, 18(1g. We are still unallle to gratify our lieaders with 3 •y confirmation of the reported victory in the Me ttiterranean, but we have the satisfaetion,to fitia:tiiat by all,advices from Holland, the account was nni- Tersally current, and seemed to be believed in that , • Country. Qur Readers may be sure of receiving authentic information on this interesting and tm- pprtant subjea as soon as it arrives. The last accounts from Holland were brought froth Rotterdam by a gentleman who left that place on the loth. The day before,a letter had been received from Cette, near Montpellier, which stated that two of the Toulon Feet had been destroyed by firP„, and that the rest were dispersed. • It is stated in several of the Morning Papers, that the Enenly had made an attempt to cross from south Boveland, in circlet to efl'e& a descent on the Wand of Walcheren, but had lost 5,000 men an the occasion. We believe this report is wholly without foundation. • We entirely concur with the writer of the • letter in the Timer of this morning, signed Aoßtcot.A,As to the inutility of the Sea Fencible Establishment ; and make no doubt that it has not escaped the atten , lion of Qoyernrnent. The Sea Fencibies were first estalalis! , eir by Lord St , gNc4tt, they were continued by L,rd ST VINpENT, till the conclusion of the war, 'end were re-established by his Lord:hip on the re newal of hostilities in 1803. In Lord lle.tinAm's ad- ministration, they were ordered to muster once a month only, instead of once a week, by ,which nearly 50,0001. was saved to the public. VariouS atterApts have been made at different times, and un der differsnt Administrations, to render this c,orps of same use to the service, but we believe they have all hitherto proved abortive. We think it .necessary to contradict two assertions whieli have appeared in the Morning Papers, neither of which hiive any foundation in fact, that Lord PALNIERSTON has a seat in the Cabinet, and that Mr, DuND,ts tias, received a new appointment in Scot . land. . The following' observations are .extraLled ftom a periodical Paper, published.in French :--• c` It is'obvidus to every man who has watched the progress of the French 'Revolution with any atten tion, and more particularly since BUONAPARTA has been declared its Chief, that some change is on the eve 'of taking place in France. There cart exist no longer any doubt as to the illness of : 41.3pNAPARTE, and it is impossible to be deceived by the enigmati cal hirtguae of the -French Journals. Foreigners will , be astonished, with the facility *with which the Revolution which is now preparing, will be ef,- feaedi. If the people. were to effect the Rev,olu than, there can be. no doubt but.that the, BUONA rkurns will be restored to. their original, obscu rity ; but 'the Senate and the titled Generals will be the only ators in the new scene. It is . to'be feared that the Senate-has not the force of a Representative Body, in the circumstances in which it is now placed. its composition, and the little influence it has had under BUONAPARTE, will render it timid. Never theless, if the Senate would reflect upon the events which haye marked the different periods of the Re yolution, it would easily be convinced that the 'Nation would declare itself for the Legislative Body, and that the 4, my would not declare for-any Gene , ral ; there not one of -them that would draw over to his side a single division of the French Army. Jteside, the Senate has a very 'simple method of in ducing the Army to declare in its favour. It would be sufficient to suspend the Conscription, and to dis band the t wo last levies. It is certain that a change o f some find. is . preparing in France. Will it be in he forin 14 Government, or only in the a&ual Chief It is impossible to speculate upon this point with any degree of certainty, from the'Very fn's- data we have, under an order of things such as, that vhich eNists at present." Yesterday 'morniu his. MAJESTY, Princesses ,?Li,,Ta.. and SOPIIIA, accompanied by Ciu Generals SPENCER and FITZROY, and colonel TAYi..on, rode in Windsor Qrea; Park till twelve - . , Prinecss AvILIA, we are happy to `say-,•;is consi.. jereil a little better. Her Royal Highness t - etnains p 3 t alt.; house of the Princess CHARLOTTE o' `FAL L S, Where the, Vrincess MARY also resides, to keep her o yal Sister company.. Dr. POPE (::o . ntinuesAu at .l2,d her Royal tlilinesi :. . • NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, N0v..17.--Arrived his Majesty's ship Achilles, of-74 gilds, Sir R. KING,. illustrious,. Of 74 guns, W. R. BROUGHTON, Euryalus, of 36 guns, Hon. G, H. L. DUN DAS, from Cherbourg. - Arrived -the Quebec, of 32 guns, Hon. G. Foy- LM, from Plymouth ; • Dapper gun-brig,' of 12 guns, Lieut. H. HARFORD, from a cruize ; Por i Mahon, of is,gims, Capt. LkwsoN, from Plymouth; Redpole sloop,. of 10 guns, Capt. igiDoNALD, from the Eastward; Helen,Woolgar,columbi4e,•Royalist, Rodney, Idus,.and Nestor, from Guernsey, bouud to Barbadoes, wit h t roop' , ;'; also Yeonzan'sGlory,So,ul REP and Mary, THOIIF3ON, from Wa . ,erford, the former bound to Emsworth. • Sailed his ,Majesty's "shill Ulysses, 'With a convoy of 70 sail, for the Downs; Derwent, CI:A rreA r N, for Sinderland ; Balboa, IoNGE, and Mary ,inn, ToNGE, for the Downs, sunder convoy. DEAL, NOV. 17.—Sailed his Majesty's Ships St. Fiorenzo and Diana, to Fleshing ; Zenotia and Os- prey, to Sheerness. Put back the Eaebuck schooner, LAWREV, with the loss of an anchor and cable. FALMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Arrived the brig Eliza -1 eth, Captain BAKER, from ,St. Stephen's, in Spain, with 260 sheep on board for Government, nine days out, bound to Portsmnuth. Cowci, Nov. 17,—Yesterd.y afternoon four large transports sailed for Spit head to join convoy for Jersey, with about 1,500 .Germans, belonging to the Duke, of Brunswick's Corps. PLYMOUTH, Nov. i6.—Sailed the Hum/sr armed ship, Capt. ENGLAND, with a convoy to the East ward. 4lsb sailed the Jane, Slate,r, for Heligoland; the Swedish ship Enegherten, ; Harris; Phelps ; Aria, Cummins; Eliz.t. H.!tison ; Emmeline, Wa terthan; uatcomh, Zieloffett ; hairy, Hutchins; London Packet, Creignton ; United Sisters, Butterfield ; Woodbine; sMeans; Caledonia, Fli!'ehison ; Eliza, *Wiitling; and Two Brothers, Cowling, for the itiver; and the Sophia transport' Captain ,May, with sick soldiers on bo:ird,' from Lisbon, boundlO Portsmouth. Came down the harbour, and anchored. in the I So4nd, his Majesty's ship Thaii. Arrived, and sailed ag aition a cruize, his 'Aldose ty's-ship • Quebec, of 3j guns. ' • Arrived the Cockatrice, :from the'Vest Indies, with Bove: ii lent stote:§i and the schooner Alert, Coox, frem-Oporto, last from Falmolith; with wines, for this Von.. Arrived the. Good Intent, HARN, from ; and the May Flower', WILLLMS, froth Swansea. DUBLIN, Nov. 14. We feel no small gratification in recording, that, through the vigilance of the Magistrates of the Office of the Police Estalilishment, tile daring an d hitherto successful banditti which bad so long in, tested the Northern road, has at length been appre- . hended: sln consktquence ofinfgrmation given.at the above ! Office, a party of.Peace - .otficeo were dispatched on ,Friday night- to Bellewstown, with instrudiuns to call at . Balbriggan for inch 'aid as might proVene cessary, and where they were joined by that aaive Magian ate, Captain Grier4on,.and aparty of Militia, when they proceeded to the house ot 'a persdti named Coogan, against whorn information , had been given: • for the murder of one of the gang, who, having re alized.a considerable putrf of - money, had been inur ' dered, by his associates for fear of his discovering the various murders and robberies , they had com mitted. On the arrival'of Capt. Grierson and the Peace Officers, 'at . CoOg,an's house, on' Saturday morning, before day-light, they surrounded the same, but being much disappointed with the interior appear ance thereof, an immediate search took place,. when some fresh sods of earth being disco'vered, as lately. laid down, the same being raised, a cave was dis covered underneath, and, although the•most dire& and positive information was. given, that Coogan lay. concealed•therein, no trace whatsoever could be ob tained ; however, on a close and' Minute search, ano ther cave was discovered in one of the apartments, in which-lay concealed Patrick Coogan, against whom and faM . tly (nine in' number) the charge of murder had been made, where they lriv-.3 undergone a very ►stric examine►tion, previous, to their seing cbotunitted for trial. Patrick Griffin; another of this. gang, Was apps fended by the Police at another quarter. • Within the last month,. so 'great has been, the' numbey)-pf vessels from Sweden; Eiambursh, and. miler parts of the Contifient,which have entered the Themes, as to surpass- ally. thing . of the sort in the reciilledion of the oldest person. No ,custom-house otlicers or pilots could be found sufficient ; the Pool 'was quite tell. A reduction in prices Of many corn modifies has already . taken. places, .a spar,. whiCfi a few months since •cost la. has been offered this week .for 51. Fir boards of coarse will fall, but large fir timber willAeepup its price until inter course is :had with because much of that ac tide comes from Archangel. - Two Gentlemen sailed from the Dutch.colst on the loth, who;say that intelligerice had been receiv by many mercantile hous'es inlioltand, that a com 7 plete victoiy,, had been gained by our fleet in the Me . diferranean. That excellent regiment the,l2lb Light Dragoons, are ordered to embark immediately for toreign ser vice, The 9th regiment 4t• Dragoons have received a similar cycler. COVENT-GARDEN TVEATRE. We resume the disagreeable office, of recording the continuance of the tumultuous proceedihgs at this place. The Modinan was patiently heard through the firsctwo ads-last night, and the Per- ' formers received so much applause, that we could not tali indulge a hope that the audience had taken so strong' an interest in the piece as would be likely to repel any efforts which might afterwards be made to obstrud the, representation. But unhappily when the half-price commenced, the opponents' of the Managers forced in' - with such strength, that, there was an end to all the ' i nfluence of the draMa, and the same scene of violence occurred as we have so often had the misfortune of recording. The Pit, as usual, -was the great scene of action, but many friends Of the 'opposition were dispersed throughout the Theatre. Their efforts, -however, were but feeble,, compared with the contentions in the Pit. These, contentious were not of the nature of those sham battles which have for some time taken place, but the Combatants evinced strong marks of haying been hearts? 'in the cause, which they respectively adopted. Some of the oppositionists were seized by Peace Officers and friends of the Proprietors, but they were speedily rescued by their party. One person in the Pit exhibited pitiable marks of having been actively engaged in the contest, for he had hardly any remains of a coat, and even the condition of his waistcoat evinced that he had ,paSsed through a formidable warfare. HiS hat 'too was lost in the • 'fray, but we are glad to find ,that he did `not suffer in his person as well as in his dress. ,The Knights of the 0. P. Order were not so•numerous as on for mer occasions, and the 0. P. seem to be giving way to medallions, which are worn by. some of the female opponents of the Theatre. The farce of llii%fiy by tl ight shared the same fate as 'the last act of the opera, for -not a syllable was heard. But notwithstanding the violence which still marks the hostility to the Proprietors, we are inclined to indulge a hope that this hostility is on. the decline. JOHN BULL is certainly at times very hot=headed, and all his -family 'partake of the same unruly spirit, but JOHN has an excellent heart, and he and all his relations must at length be ashamed of what begins to wear the aspect of per , secution, a practice not 'analogous to the British character., Some democratical spirits for the further, ,ance of their; own ends, may have succeeded in blending their views with the opposition, but they . loyal feelings and t he ; good, sense of the . bulk of the people will defeat 'their designs, and finally put an end to the progress of heedless young men, who have probably no other interest in the affair than what arises from a desire natural at their time of. life of mixing with scenes of noisy merriment. — There were very few placards last night. A female .orator appeared in the pit, but which side she took it is difficult to say, as she, was only heard by,the per sons who immediately surrounded her. Iti3,how,- ever, probable tleit she was an O. P. heroine: After the usual shouts, a short dance,,.a4roan or' two, and a stave of God' save the King, the chief agents dispersed, and. their party soorilollows&them. „ . . .. . t We are sorry to learn that as Mrs. STEPHEN-KB:NI , . BLE was performing Alexina, in 'The Exile, on Wed nesday last, at DoncaSter, she had the misfortune — to dishicate her shoulder. This accident happened in an effort to rise, and the audience ‘vere.n4qto alarind on hearing her exclaim 'as s he,left the'sst ~ ”On ! mv.arm is out." Mr. BR ANDDN . , ii Surgegny luckily - being in the theatre at the time, immediate; assistance was procuted. This is tire- ,second time' that Mr. KEMBLB has inet.witlt a similar.accident. Mr, CIIDKEII has been' pronounced incapable of discharging the_ ditties of Secretary , to' the Admiral ty, by the Opposition- Writers, betatise - he happens to possess literary powers, and a taste for poetry. Surely, - as they ,are Authors, it ntillt:Le 6xpeaed that they - 'would not deem a turn for. literature .a disqualification for office: But to illustrate this Gen tleman'S disability, he is compared with mr. An- , ,,, DISON, who is generally understood to have been, indebted for his elevation in life to 'his poem of The campaign, and Mr. CHOKER, it is:alleged, ' has• been equally indebted for his introduetion 'to favour, to his excellent Poem of Talavera. '.There certainly is no little honour .in being . compared to ADDISON, and in poetical ability Mr. CHOKER:has some tight to such a compliment ; but he has the advantage even of that celebrated charader in one . point,lfgr. AnntsoN, with all his learning and all his powers, had no talent for speaking, but Mr. CHOKER dis plays considerable ability in this respea ; and, • though while he was not in office, he' might I,tuda bly employ his Muse in celebrating the valour of his - count.rythen, we believe that there is little reason to apprehend that he will ever suffer - his poetical taste to interfere with his public duty. , . It will he in the recolleaion of our readers, that we stated some time ago, that Admiral FIANIKOtT, who commanded the Russian fleet when it was forced to take shelter - in Baltic Port, had been. tried by a Court Martial, and degraded from his 'rank. He was condemned to serve three-months as a cod mon. sailor before the mast. Them:: act - emulated indig nities,broke his heart. He died lately, the of grief and indignation. • ".. • . _ . . - Yesterday ,a Cabinet Council was. helOt reign Office, , there were present,.the .Loin CHAN CELLOR ; the Earls of BATHURST, LIVERPOOL,. HA RROWB y;and CHATHAM ; Lords MU LGRAVE and PALMERSTON ; the CHANCELLOR" of the EXCHE -QUER, and Mr. RIDER. Yesterday, at halt past twelve o'clock, a_Board was held at the Royal Military Academy at ~Chelsea : t here were present, their Royal Highnesses t he Dukes of YORK and CUMBERLAND, Sir DAVID DU NDAS, and ,a large party of General Officers. The Board did not break up until four o'clock. On Thursday 'the Lords of. the CoUncil met; . for the first time this season, at the Council. Chamber. Whitehall, to-hear -Prize Appeals. The - Court was composed of the ,MASTER of the ROLLS, Sir WIL LIAM WYNNE, and Sir :TORN NicuoLs. The Coun sel , 'attending were, Sir CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, the KING'S. ADVOCATE, Mr. DALLAS, Mr. 8TE 1 :. P-IM l ` l6 , D.o6tors ADAM and ARNOLD.. We have a late arrival from Algiers, by which . we learn that the,DY had demanded 'an annual tribute from France; and on the Consul's refusal, he was arrested. We know from the Fiends Papers, that the late Consul DUBOIS THAINVILLE had returned tr y Paris. .13M1TAPATE'S EPILEPSY. We insert the article which follows, respe6iing the reported malady of Buonaparte, .without at all vouching for its correEtness. It is extraded from a Paper printed in the French language : " The - following details are derived from a con sultation Which•DOetor Corvisart has had with Doelot -*; a physician of celebrity at Paris. " This . consultation took place since the return of Buonaparte to Fontambleau, where he has had anew. attack of epilepsy. " From the time when Buonaparte was at the tni-. litary school at Brienne he, wOls subject to convul sions, which had all the symptoms of epilepsy. At the age of 22, a kind of scorbutic eruption made its appearance, which rendered the convulsions less fre quent and less violent. As often as he attempted to get rid' of this eruption, the convulsions return ed with alarming symptoms. . Buonaparte. had in Egypt a pretty violent attack, during which he was some , days without seeing any , one. At Vienna lie caught a cold atter violent exercise fever made it a r pearance, and in a very few hours delirium followed. Convulsions came on, 'and the epileptic attack was more violent than any he had ever had before ; it lasted three or four days,. When Dr. Cdrvisart arrived Btionaparre was better; • he ordered two issues to beap'ened. Since his return to Fontainbleau, Buonaparte wished to resume the mode of life to which he was accustomed, and, not» withstanding Dr. Corvisart's remonstrances, suffered the issues to close ; and in spite of all the Do6tor can do or say, he cannot be persuaded to have them re- Opener)." * We have hesitated whether we should name this physi cian, or designate him by his initials; we thought char it wuuld be more prudent hell her, to give hiS uame nor tniti:ils• SINGULAR INTREPIDITY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BOMBAY COURIER. SIR,' A singular instance of intrepidity took place at Agoada, near Goa, on Tuesday last, the 21St inst. • Early in the morning a report was received at the cantonments, that a large Cheetur had been seen on the rocks near the sea. About nine o'clock, a num ber of 'officers and men assembled at the spot where it was said to have been seen, when, after some search, the animal was discovered to be in the re cess of an immense rock; dogs were sent in, in the hopes.of starting him, hut without effeet, they hidV;.F; ing returned with several wounds. . Lieutenant Evan Davies, .of the 7th regiment, at‘' tempted to enter the den, but was obliged to return , finding thepassage extremely narrow and dark. He, however, attempted it a second time, with a pick-ace in his hand, with which he removed some obstruc tions that were in his way, and having proceeded a few yards, he heard a noise, which ,he conceived to be that of the animal in question. He then returned, and communicated the same to Lieut. Thew, of the artillery, who also went in t he same distance, and was of _a similar opinion. What course to pursue was doubtful ;, some proposed blowing up the roek,ot hers ,smoking him out. At length a port-fire was tied to the• end of a baMboo, and introduced into a small c ro. vice which led towards the.den. Lieut. Davies wen! ott - his hands and knees down the narrow • passse which - led to it (which he accomplished with MOW nett danger to 'himself ), and by ttim light of it he; ' was, nabled to discover the animal , having returned, he said he could kill him with a pistol, which Ming prp , cured, he 'entered again, and fired, but without success, owing to the awkward situation he was then placed in, with. his left hand only at liberty. L.ll Went back with a musket and bayonet, and wotinugcr him in the loins, but was obliged to retreat Is qui" . as l 'the narrow passage would allow; the tiger having forced the musket b'ack towards the mouth of the den. , He then procured-a - rifle, with which he again, forced his way into the place, and taking a deliberate aiin at his:head; fired, and put an end to his existence. • 'Another difficulty still presented itself; how to get him out required some consideration. Ropes were procured;otbdt every attempt to reach him proved Fruitless, .till Lieutenant D. with a pick-axe in his hand,,ent-his way into the den, and got sufficientlY near to fasten a strong rope round his neck, by w hid ) means he was dragged out, to the no small satisfs c. lion of a numerous crowd of anxious speaators. He measured seven feet and a half from the' nns ° to the A CONSTANT READER. Agoado,'Mikii 22, 1809. INSTANCE OF HEROIC COURAGE OF MR. WORTH, A MIDSHIPMAN, AND SON OF THE ,LATE ADMIRAL WORTH. .. At the latter end of last year, or early in this, Mr. Word}, ,with five more Englishmen, attempted to make their escape from the fort of Bitche, in Franca , by niehns of a rope made from ,their sheets. ' The height of that part of the fort from whence they de scended is near 96 feet perpendicular. Five sac' ceeded, but the sheet unfortunately broke, and pre cipitated this brave lad near 30 Meet, by which be broke lii thigh. Such ryas his courage, although in excruciating pain, that he remained at the foot of the fort from seven o'clock i n the evening tilt • eight the next morning. •While he lay in torturc't the night patrolepassed close to him; in the niorry ing they found him still lyina,in the ditch, and ask' ed him why he had not .called for assistance ? H' answer was—" What, and betray my comrades ?-':, No:—thank God ! they have a night's start of you., 1 He ,recovered, and immediately on, his recovery, An ! ' a ccording to French humanity, was put into a dun' lgeomfor several weeks. The same young man made the, same desperate' attempt. two years before, with six others ; but 01 4 tlte,mornent of. the rope being fixed to the bar of the souterraine, an officer tumbled over the rope; i this gave the alarm. , Instead of retreating into th e s.outerrajne, they all descended on the rope, which broke about seven feet from the post, and they fe lt near 100 feet right perpendicular. Lieutenant El' sel was killed dead, and the other five fell into 3 small tank of about two feet water, which broke their fall, but they were all senseless, and it "p many weeks before they recovered ; itutnediate l l on which they were all confined for .three month" in the depth oLiwinter, in dungeons.. The other evening - , between seven. and eigh t o'clock, the premises of Mr. Lane ,:in Gerrard-stre e, ,Sho, was, robed 9,f, stockipg-web pieccs,